Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2021 18:44:58 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Help recovering damaged drive - fsck segfaults, read-only mount looks ok Message-ID: <003101d6fce2$14699300$3d3cb900$@gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <016b01d6f8f3$d8853c00$898fb400$@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <012a01d6f81e$3103d390$930b7ab0$@gsicomp.on.ca> <20210201155842.1e529018.freebsd@edvax.de> <016b01d6f8f3$d8853c00$898fb400$@gsicomp.on.ca>
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> > If I force a mount in readonly mode, I can inspect the drive and at > > first glance, everything seems valid. Since this machine is used > > for backups, I have lots of other medata (eg, checksums) and I'm > > slowly working through to see if anything important is damaged. > > At this point: STOP. > If your data is important to you, get a copy of it NOW. Thanks to everyone who provided guidance here. Since this was my backup system, I determined that there wasn't any value in trying to restore the incremental history on it, and it would be best to start fresh with a new filesystem and new backups, which are in progress now. Matt
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